Primary FRCA Teaching Day
Category: Training - Primary FRCA Teaching Days
Date: March 10th 2017 9:30am until 4:15pm
Location: Trainees Room, Anaesthetic Dept, First Floor, Great Western Hospital, Swindon SN3 6BB
Topic: Muscle physiology & pharmacology of neuro-muscular blockers
Venue: Trainee’s Room, Main Theatre Complex, 1st Floor, Great Western Hospital
09:30-10:30: Action Potentials, Neuromuscular Junction, the Motor End Plate and Disturbances of Neuromuscular Transmission. Dr Amy Greatorex.
10:30-11:00: Muscle Types: Skeletal , Smooth, Cardiac. Dr Rory Carpenter
11:00-11:30: Disorders of Muscle Contraction. Dr Hussain Lahie.
11:30-12:00: Coffee
12:00-13:00: Assessment and Reversal of Neuromuscular Blockade. Indications, Mechanisms of action and Clinically Unwanted Side Effects. Dr Ben Maxwell.
13:00-13:45: Lunch
13:45-14:45: Muscle Contraction. Excitation-Contraction Coupling. Dr James Andrew
14:45-15:45: Muscle Relaxants, Classification, Sites of Action. Properties of an ideal muscle relaxant. Dr Hamish Breach.
15:45-16:15: MCQ’s